Grant and Danny
How Many Teams Are Better Than The Commanders Sitting Here Today?
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In other words, right now, this moment, the lions are the commanders. Well, the lions through five weeks have not been as impressive as the commanders, but they were really good last year or an NFC championship game team a year ago, have Super Bowl expectations. They're a better bet to still be in the mix at the end of the NFC playoffs this year. But is that what we're talking about? Or are we talking about who through five weeks has played the best football? Then Washington is higher on the list if it's the second criteria. So I'll give you another example. San Francisco, they're two and three. Are you 100% sure with a lot of pelts on the wall there in San Fran where they get right and they go to NFC title games and Super Bowls every other year, it seems like, how sure are you that they're dead in the water? Right now they've played what? The 17th or 18th best in the NFL? But there's some pedigree, some track record here, whereas this is all very new new for Washington. So it's always, that's kind of that subjective measure, right? Where it's hard to figure. So people can do whatever they want with their rankings. What I am doing here, when I answer this question, is I am looking through a very small narrow window at just five weeks of football. So take names out of it, take cities, circumstances, who's played the best football? Organization does not matter. Jersey being worn doesn't matter. It's a blind ballot, so to speak. And my evaluation began at 1259 each time before week one, let's say, right? And by way of that metric right now, I would say the commanders have been more impressive than the chiefs who are five and oh, yeah, the commanders have been more impressive than the lions who are four and one. The commanders have been more impressive than the Texans who are currently ahead of them in the pro football talk rankings as well. In fact, the only team probably I would have ahead of Washington just based on these five weeks is the Minnesota Vikings at five and oh, and I say that after the Vikings just played their most pedestrian game. But I do remember that the commanders in week one were pretty disastrous and it was a fairly disgraceful effort even for a team under a new staff. But is that the way we should be looking at it? Like does that work for you? It's helpful. That's a data point, right? Versus, you know, big picture, who's going to be good in a couple of weeks who's shown enough, who's going through it right now, like Buffalo is really good. Now they've lost his past week and they've lost too straight. I'm going to bet on them to have, you know, double digit wins and be a factor in the AFC postseason when it comes to it, right? Same with Baltimore, same with Kansas City. We all know this Kansas City is is the weirdest five and O team ever where they don't have much prolific. And are you sure Juju Smith Schuster is going to be the dude for the rest of the way? Go for 100 yards a week? Of course not. But we also know that it's Andy Reid and Pat Mahomes. So they they deserve every benefit that out they get. I guess said differently. It being really good through five games or number two in the power rankings or whatever gets you nothing. There's no moral otherwise victory about that, right? But if that's the exercise, then you can put them as high as second or third in the NFL right now and without without questions. So Minnesota's won the best point differential in the sport defensively. They've been so good. I think they've given up the second fewest points in the league through through this many games to who to say the jets. You have the number one defense in the NFL yardage wise. Yeah, I mean, they've been fantastic in that regard. Fewest points allowed in the in the NFC rapid fire here. More impressive to this point in the year. And remember that week one happened. I think it's easy for us to forget that because these last four wins, but our counseling for two and five weeks, five weeks. Yeah, lions or commanders. I'd say Washington. Me too. Vikings are commanders. Vikings. I would agree with that chief's or commanders. Washington's been more impressive. Ravens are commanders. Washington. Texans are commanders. That one's really close. Texans got blown out by the Vikings. Yep. They have one loss where they just didn't show up were terrible. So other than that, they were really good. Yeah. So that was close. I'd still beat in teams like the commanders. Again, now we're picking nets. These are top five teams here. Yeah. So I would say Houston because the way they beat Jacksonville two weeks ago, I'm kind of going, you deserved to lose that game. You got up on the skin of your teeth. Washington's got that version of that with with the Giants. This is a close one. I narrow edge Washington in that room. Same Packers. Washington Falcons. Washington Bucks. Washington. I mean, that that's kind of there's a big drop off after that. You get the point. Now, maybe someone could just turn on the radio right now and say, who cares that they've been the second best team in football. And okay, that's cool. I get your point. But to that, I would say, oh my God, there's 32 team. Yeah. This team is normally in the 27 to 32 range. And right now we're suggesting there has been one team more impressive than Washington. And it's a five and O team that going into its game this Sunday had the front running MVP at